Our PI Dr Beth Johnson illustrates our TV&Class project at the recent Arts and Humanities Research Council Showcase University of Leeds Leeds Uni Media and takes part in a panel discussing common challenges and solutions connected to research projects 🙌

ITV’s share price has jumped after a report that several investors are considering making bids for the British broadcaster. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Very excited that our PI Dr Beth Johnson is in Brisbane sharing What’s On Arts and Humanities Research Council intersectional research on class&TV with colleagues at QUT Queensland University of Technology) Leeds Uni Media #EDI 🙌 🇦🇺

When children start school, they don't start on a level playing field. Children from the lowest income households are already 11 months behind their more affluent peers by the time they start primary school. Strong action is needed to close this wide developmental gap.

Our PI ⁦Dr Beth Johnson⁩’s trip in Australia continues: this week she is in Melbourne and we are wishing her all best of luck for her talk at ⁦Monash University⁩ tomorrow! 👏👏🇦🇺 linkedin.com/posts/beth-joh…

Miss out on any of our Seminar Series events? You can now watch them on our YouTube channel! Catch up on all of this year's Seminar Series events below: buff.ly/3Dg437y

Ere we go again - Best in Class 2025 crowdfunder is live! Help support working class comedians to get to Edinburgh Fringe. Donate and share if you are human - comment if you are a bot. #BestinClass25 #WeAreBestInClass gofund.me/160db682

The BBC Comedy Collective Bursary is back! This supercharged bursary scheme offers 10 places to emerging writers, producers, directors and editors from across the UK who’d like to develop their careers in scripted comedy. Submissions are open from 13-31 January. Find full

New imporant research on class inequalities in the Film Industry, drawing on BFI data. Looking forward to reading this! 🙌

our PI Dr Beth Johnson spoke at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 on Friday on large, complex grants and the experience of our Arts and Humanities Research Council project 'What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry' #Research 👏

UK’s TV workers exposed to ‘illegal or barely legal’ conditions and traumatic content | Television industry | The Guardian theguardian.com/media/2025/jan…

we have a Bluesky project account now as well! Follow us @whatsontvclass.bsky.social for project updates and class&TV news!📺

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New paper! "The Parenthood Penalty in Creative Occupations: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Made Existing Inequalities Worse" by Tal Feder Rebecca Florisson mark taylor Siobhan McAndrew and me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

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If you work in the creative industries only you can help plug the data gap on the experiences of workers in the sector. Bectu's Big Survey survey has now been extended to close on the 21 March, fill it out: surveymonkey.com/r/DNP6GVH

I’m absolutely thrilled to have been asked by ✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ to give the opening keynote at this symposium Leeds Uni Media in September, talking about class - on screen and off - in the current TV industry. Looking forward to some rich conversations and hopefully a better way forwards.